# Lukin Group Theses ## 2026 Theses - Neng-Chun Chiu - Continuous Coherent Operation in a Large-Scale Neutral Atom Array Quantum Architecture - Pavel Dolgirev - Design and control of strongly correlated quantum matter: from materials to programmable quantum hardware - Simon Evered - Digital quantum simulation and error correction with atomic processors - Haoyang Gao - Interaction-Enhanced Sensing in Solid-State Spin Ensembles - Jinen (Tim) Guo - Advancing the Scalability Frontier of Neutral Atom Quantum Processors - Yan Qi Huan - Nuclear Spin Memories for Silicon-Vacancy Quantum Network Nodes - Xiaoling Liu - Optical probe of electronically correlated states in atomically thin semiconductors - Pieter Jan Stas - Distributed Applications of a Solid State Qubit Quantum Network - Pavel Stroganov - Control System for a Continuously Operating Neutral Atom Array ## 2025 Theses - Dolev Bluvstein - [Error-corrected quantum processing with neutral atoms](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/a6e366ad-3a5e-4a56-8d44-ee333cae3c5f) - Madelyn Cain - [Quantum algorithms and quantum error correction with neutral atoms](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/fc270da6-5eb8-45b6-a3c8-d9fdffe40938) - Long Fung Frankie Fung - [Towards A Programmable Nanomechanical Interface for Mediating Spin-Spin Interactions](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/a29ecafd-eae1-4b0e-9030-f6fced997da4) - Brandon Grinkemeyer - [Photonic Interfaces for Neutral Atom Quantum Computers](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/34a15f6e-9e38-4ede-aaf5-5480177af3a7) - Marcin Kalinowski - [Towards useful computation with neutral-atom quantum processors](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/28e7bc9d-4178-4d58-a5a9-838f164971d7) - Nathan Leitao - [Universal Dynamics of Metrologically Useful Entanglement in Strongly Interacting, Disordered Many-Body Systems](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/483006d0-01d9-40a4-9e14-cd8171e9b220) - Nishad Maskara - [Algorithms and Architectures for Quantum Simulation with Neutral-atom Arrays](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/67419383-e009-442e-a91b-7ff8be333af4) - John DaLi Schaefer - [Toward high-cooperativity spin-magnetomechanics with levitated micromagnets](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/8cf7c588-001f-443e-94c5-1294e396f1b6) - Madison Sutula - [Large-Scale Characterization of Quantum Emitters in High-Purity Diamond](https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/143261) ## 2024 Theses - Erik Knall - [Diamond Nanostructures with Color Centers](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/4c0d7856-7077-48ba-b5b9-60f39647cdb7) - Can Knaut - [A Quantum Memory Network Based on Diamond Nanophotonics](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/ff8bcebe-634b-4688-9fef-567ed44498ee) - Tamara Sumarac - [Single Atom Detection via Transparency Techniques](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/ae44b81b-281c-47b9-a474-e91e235fb995) ## 2023 Theses - Iris Cong - [Quantum Machine Learning, Error Correction, and Topological Phases of Matter](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/63f20196-04c2-4d9f-9fc2-26929cf5b932) - Sepehr Ebadi - [Quantum Simulation and Computation with Two-Dimensional Arrays of Neutral Atoms](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/455c237b-4427-4b21-a9b4-18a7f61832b7) - Emil Khabiboulline - [Quantum Communication and Thermalization, From Theory to Practice](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/8b3d1cd0-f111-48f6-9628-0856acd0e366) - Paloma Ocola -[ A Nanophotonic Device as a Quantum Network Node for Atoms in Optical Tweezers](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37375476) ## 2022 Theses - Andrey Sushko - [Structural imaging and electro-optical control of two-dimensional semiconductors](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/82846b61-07bd-41b1-b411-66db05321fb0) - Kristine Rezai - [Probing dynamics of a two-dimensional dipolar spin ensemble](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37372278) - Yu-Ting Chen - [A Platform for Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Rydberg Atom Arrays](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37372046) - Tamara Dordevic - [A nanophotonic quantum interface for atoms in optical tweezers](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37371982) - Hengyun Zhou - [Quantum Many-Body Physics and Quantum Metrology with Floquet-Engineered Interacting Spin Systems](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37372160) ## 2021 Theses - Trond Andersen - [Local electronic and optical phenomena in two-dimensional materials](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37371126) - Elana Urbach - [Nanoscale Magnetometry with Single Spin Qubits in Diamond](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37370068) - Alexander Keesling - [Quantum Simulation and Quantum Information Processing with Programmable Rydberg Atom Arrays](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37368497) - Leo Zhou - [Complexity, Algorithms, and Applications of Programmable Quantum Many-body Systems](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37368490) - Emma Rosenfeld - [Novel techniques for control and transduction of Solid-state spin qubits](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37368496) - Bo Dwyer - [NV centers as local probes of two-dimensional materials](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37368456) - Harry Levine - [Quantum information processing and quantum simulation with programmable Rydberg atom arrays](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37368420) - Polnop Samutpraphoot - [A quantum network node based on a nanophotonic interface for atoms in optical tweezers](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37368227) - Bart Machielse - [Electronic and Nanophotonic Integration of a Quantum Network Node in Diamond](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37368318) - Mihir Bhaskar - [Diamond nanophotonic quantum networks](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37368173) ## 2020 Theses - Aditya Venkatramani - [Quantum nonlinear optics: controlling few-photon interactions](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37369461) - Dominik Wild - [Algorithms and Platforms for Quantum Science and Technology](https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/37365537/WILD-DISSERTATION-2020.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y) - Aaron Kabcenell - [Hybrid Quantum Systems with Nitrogen Vacancy Centers and Mechanical Resonators](https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/37365840/KABCENELL-DISSERTATION-2020.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y) - Christian Nguyen - [Building Quantum Networks Using Diamond Nanophotonic](https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/37365957/NGUYEN-DISSERTATION-2020.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y) ## 2019 Theses - Joonhee Choi - [Quantum Many-body Dynamics of a Disordered Electronic Spin Ensemble in Diamond](/file_url/226) ## 2018 Theses - Arthur Safira - [NV magnetic noise sensing and quantum information processing, and levitating micromagnets over type-II superconductors](/file_url/219) - Soonwon Choi - [Quantum dynamics of strongly interacting many-body systems](/file_url/108) - Ruffin Evans - [An integrated diamond nanophotonics platform for quantum optics](/file_url/109) - Michael Goldman - [Coherent optical control of atom-like defects in diamond: Probing internal dynamics and environmental interactions](/file_url/112) - Janos Perczel - [Topological quantum optics in two-dimensional atomic lattices](/file_url/118) ## 2017 Theses - Alp Sipahigil - [Quantum optics with diamond color centers coupled to nanophotonic devices](/file_url/119) - Igor Lovchinsky - [Nanoscale magnetic resonance spectroscopy using individual spin qubits](/file_url/128) ## 2016 Theses - Peter Komar - [Quantum information science and quantum metrology: Novel systems and applications](/file_url/127) - Georg Kucsko - [Coupled spins in diamond: From quantum control to metrology and many-body physics](/file_url/126) ## 2015 Theses - Shimon Kolkowitz - [Nanoscale Sensing with individual nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond](/file_url/121) - Jeff Thompson - [A quantum interface between single atoms and nanophotonic structures](/file_url/120) ## 2014 Theses - Yiwen Chu - [Quantum optics with atom-like systems in diamond](/file_url/125) - Peter Maurer - [Coherent control of diamond defects for quantum information science and quantum sensing](/file_url/124) - Brendan Shields - [Diamond platforms for nanoscale photonics and metrology](/file_url/123) - Norm Yao - [Topology, localization, and quantum information in atomic, molecular and optical systems](/file_url/122) ## 2013 Theses - Michael Gullans - [Controlling atomic, solid-state and hybrid systems for quantum information processing](/file_url/117) ## 2011 Theses - Emre Togan - [Optical control of individual nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond](/file_url/116) ## 2010 Theses - Alexey Gorshkov - [Novel systems and methods for quantum communication, quantum computation, and quantum simulation](/file_url/115) - Jeronimo Maze - [Quantum manipulation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond: From basic properties to applications](/file_url/114) - Michal Bajcsy - [Novel systems and techniques for nonlinear optics at low light levels](/file_url/113) ## 2009 Theses - Liang Jiang - [Towards scalable quantum communication and computation: Novel approaches and realizations](/file_url/110) - Mohammad Hafezi - [Strongly interacting systems in AMO physics](/file_url/111) ## 2008 Theses - Darrick Chang - [Controlling atom-photon interactions in nano-structured media](/file_url/107) ## 2007 Theses - Lilian Childress - [Coherent manipulation of single quantum systems in the solid state](/file_url/106) ## 2006 Theses - Matthew Eisaman - [Generation, storage, and retrieval of nonclassical states of light using atomic ensembles](/file_url/104) - Jake Taylor - [Hyperfine interactions and quantum information processing in quantum dots](/file_url/105) ## 2005 Theses - Axel Andre - [Nonclassical states of light and atomic ensembles: Generation and new applications](/file_url/103) *For theses prior to 2005, please see* [the Physics Department list of theses](https://www.physics.harvard.edu/academics/phds).